A remarkably well-preserved shrunken head has just been authenticated by DNA analysis, which provides strong evidence that anecdotal accounts of violent head-hunting in South America were true.

Shrunken heads are a key part of the “scary tribal people” setup. And some cultures did, in fact, create miniature heads for religious and spiritual purposes. But how does one take a regular ...

By Christina Morales No bigger than a fist, the shrunken head had nonetheless become a major headache. The head, a mummified Amazonian war trophy called a tsantsa, had been in the possession of ...

Shrunken bodies? Struve appeared to have proof ... the equally gruesome and lucrative trade in freshly buried corpses dug up by body snatchers and sold to anatomy schools in England and the ...

THE practice of Shrinking Heads originated from the northwestern region of the Amazon rainforest. But what exactly is it and what are some disturbing facts about it? Here's the lowdown ...

A museum at Oxford University has removed its famous collection of shrunken heads and other human remains from display as it seeks to "decolonise" its collection. Pitt Rivers Museum, which is to ...

As a kid, FT associate editor Stephen Bush loved seeing ghoulish things: mummies, shrunken heads, supposedly magical severed hands. He credits these items with teaching him curiosity and a love ...

Thieves managed to swap some authentic baseball memorabilia with some fakes, and steal real shrunken heads. These items were tucked in among the twin-trunked elephants and the two-headed cows in ...

The Golden Tiki’s collection of celebrity “shrunken heads” (in actuality, sculptures created by Wyoming-based artist Terry Barr) is both a legit “who’s who” and “what the hell is ...